Chapter 240: Plans are in man, and things are done in heaven

Meng Jun said: "Father, are we just watching the Tartars behave nonsense and do nothing? ”

Meng Ying smiled indifferently and said, "What do you know? The major event of the country of soldiers, you think that a decisive battle is easy, but you don't know that the real decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of people, testing each other, entangled for months, and years is common. Because every such war will deeply affect the fate of the country. ”

"All I can do is to be myself, I don't make mistakes, and I will make mistakes first."

Meng Jun said: "What if you don't make a mistake first? ”

Meng Ying said neatly: "Then don't fight." ”

With thousands of soldiers, charging into battle, the battle is unstoppable, but a brave general, can really weigh the pros and cons, can fight or not, can be regarded as the threshold of entering the marshal.

Meng Ying is much worse than generals like Xu Da, Lan Yu, and even Emperor Taizong in the early Ming Dynasty.

But overall, it's within the threshold.

It is certainly right to make more mistakes in the war than who makes more mistakes on both sides, but in a big war with hundreds of thousands of opponents and thousands of problems, who dares to say that there is no problem on their side at all?

It can be said that every side makes mistakes.

It's just big and small mistakes.

Meng Ying didn't have the ability, so she found out a small mistake first, and then made a big mistake from this small mistake that was enough to wipe out the opponent's army.

You can only wait and make a strategic-level mistake first.

However, he also started fighting in his teens, and he has a lot of experience and has experienced many wars, only above Meng Ying, not under Meng Ying, and expects such people to make mistakes. It's just too unlikely an event.

In fact, Meng Ying was not reconciled in her heart.

Because of the change of political forces in the DPRK and China, Meng Ying found an opportunity.

An opportunity to ascend to the sky almost in one step.

Chengguo Gong was defeated and died, and the British Duke was also implicated, which means that there is one less noble in the cabinet. This person, Zhu Qizhen, has hinted at him many times.

But if he doesn't have enough military merit, he doesn't speak hard.

Although he is in the army, the news from Beijing has never been cut off, and at most the news is a little lagging behind.

Even Meng Ying's attention to the Jingshi was better than the battlefield in front of him.

Without him, any general who single-handedly commands the army of the whole country has to deal with two battles at the same time, one is the enemy in front of him and the other is the enemy behind him. It is also a policy change in Beijing.

There has never been a king who has doubted it, and who can still make meritorious contributions to outsiders.

Meng Ying also understands this truth.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen's trust in Meng Ying never seems to have wavered, even when Bauhinia Pass was at its most critical, Zhu Qizhen never thought of transferring troops from the front line.

Meng Ying is still very relieved about this.

But there is one

point, what makes Meng Ying uneasy, it is Wang Ji.

Wang Ji's almost appalling revelation of the guard system after the defeat of Maoerzhuang has made Meng Ying understand one thing, that is, the military system of the Ming Dynasty must change.

Meng Ying agrees with this.

To tell the truth, when Emperor Taizong went on his Northern Expedition, it seemed that he had mobilized 500,000 troops, but in fact, most of them were to maintain logistics, and the real ones used for the decisive battle were only tens of thousands of horsemen.

If the cavalry in Meng Ying's hands was the cavalry of Emperor Taizong's period, why bother if he had been in the camp step by step, he would have already broken the Tile Thorn Army head-on.

The decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is obvious to all.

And Meng Ying also understands how he got his current position, so he naturally supports the reform of the military system.

Support is supported. But this is too much involved, Meng Ying is about to ascend to the position of the head of the nobles, so naturally he has to fight for enough interests for the people below.

But how can this interest be contested?

How can Xungui speak so hard?

It's about winning the battle. has military merits, even if he goes to pat the table for the cabinet, the emperor will appease one or two if he knows about it, but without military merits, if he goes to the military department to receive something, it depends on the face of the military department.

This time the change of the military system will affect Da Ming I don't know how many years, and there are some things that Meng Ying must strive for, so he wants to win a battle and then go back.

It is even said that the battle in front of us will have a direct impact on the military system for decades or even hundreds of years to come.

If you win, you can fight for more benefits, if you lose, no, you don't have to lose, just send you out of the customs first, and if you want to reach the power before the battle of Maoerzhuang, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

It's just that even if Meng Ying thinks about it in her heart, she can only press it down, and secretly said in her heart: "The plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky." ”

After Meng Ying wrote a letter to Yang Hong, the team went in the direction of Juyong Pass. Meng Ying secretly calculated the mileage in her heart, and said secretly: "About eleven or twelve days, you will be able to get to Juyong Guancheng." ”

He is not worried about the safety of Juyongguan at all, for no other reason, Juyongguan was originally a Xiongcheng, and it was reinforced by Xu Xi, the secretary of the military department, which can be called an iron wall.

There are tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the gates. Firearms are sufficient, and Shaofu's production has not been heard of for a moment, and the materials produced are transported to Juyong Pass through the gallop.

It's endless.

Even in times of crisis, the garrison of the capital can actually be transferred, after all, there is a steep pass, think about guarding the Yongguan Pass, and there is not much difference between guarding the city of Beijing.

No matter how you think about it, you can't lose a war like this.

As for the letter to Yang Hong, it was intended to win over Yang Hong. After all, he is about to ascend to the throne, and he must have enough generals to support him.

The British Duke spoke hard in the cabinet, and he was a general of the Cheng Guo Gong abroad. 、

If he enters the cabinet, his old ministry will be too far behind.

After all, he has been delayed for ten years, and even if he promotes, they all have their own origins, such as Guo Deng, who has the Marquis of Wuding behind him, and Fang Jin's uncle.

His foundation is too shallow, so he naturally wants to take advantage of this war to find a way to win over some generals for his own use, even if he doesn't use it for himself, he can't use it for the enemy.

And Yang Hong is the focus of his wooing, because among the generals of the border army in the Beijing camp, they have their own characteristics, but it is estimated that Yang Hong is the only one who really enters the role of the marshal.

It's just that Yang Hong was not happy when he received Meng Ying's letter.

Because in addition to explaining the whereabouts of the army and explaining the defense of Datong, Meng Ying also said one thing, that is, about Yang Hong's son, Yang Jun.

Meng Ying's hint is very clear, that is, let Yang Hong take the initiative to write and ask Yang Jun to behead.

The reason is very simple, Gu Xingzu has been beheaded, and the Gu family has been exiled. And Yang Junfang didn't say it, this is Your Majesty worrying about you. We have to wait until after the big war to deal with it.

If you win a big victory, Yang Jun will definitely die, but if you lose the battle, Your Majesty will rely on you, and it will be easy to forgive Yang Jun.

But is this kind of forgiveness really good?

Your Majesty has had a knot in his heart since then, and it will be difficult to do it in the future.

It's better to go now, so I will write to ask Yang Jun to thank the world. First of all, Yang Jun's crime should have been beheaded. Secondly, you take the initiative to advance, and there is still a glimmer of life, so that Your Majesty can remember your loyalty and patriotism, and open the net. Third, even if you really kill it, Your Majesty will remember the pain of losing your son and give you some compensation.

Your career will be much smoother in the future.

Of course, Meng Ying just suggested that Yang Hong think more.

Yang Hong read it carefully, and secretly said in his heart: "The rebel son ------"

As a general, Yang Hong naturally knew the importance of military discipline, if Yang Jun was under his command, Yang Hong would not have made a second choice at all, and killed Yang Jun at that time.

The reason is very simple, it is precisely because they are father and son in the army that Yang Hong has to enforce the law strictly.

But after all, the father-son relationship is there, whose child is not pulled out by a handful of shit and urine, even if this son is a bastard, Yang Hong has no intention of killing the son.

He has not written on this matter for a period of time, although he is public and private, and he is busy with military affairs, but he also has a trace of thoughts in his heart.

That is, after the war, if he has a small merit, can he redeem Yang Jun's life with his merits.

But now it seems that the results of the drag can only get worse and worse.

Of course, he couldn't write a letter to beg for a killing, but he also felt that he should give His Majesty an explanation. He wrote a lot of thoughts, and wrote a note, which was nothing more than that Yang Jun deserved to die for his crimes, but the old minister only had two sons, and he didn't dare to ask His Majesty for forgiveness, but only asked His Majesty to allow the old minister to atone for his sins with merit and save Yang Jun's life. Yunyun.

This letter was sent to Beijing, but it was just a small episode in the war, and the end of the war slowly sounded under the Yongguan Pass.